Friday, January 13, 2012

BBC News - Eve teasing in India: Assault or harassment by another name

BBC News - Eve teasing in India: Assault or harassment by another name

A Murder at Paradise - NYTimes.com

“She put herself between the evil coming up the mountain,” said her father, the Rev. Paul Kritsch, “and the people at the other end.” The gunman opened fire on the ranger. At least two shots, one to Anderson’s head, the other to her torso, were enough to kill her. Barnes plunged into waist-deep snow. The next day he was found, dead of exposure and drowning, in the icy creek that drops quickly into a waterfall, the subject of countless pictures.
A Murder at Paradise - NYTimes.com

Thursday, January 12, 2012

BBC News - The French women who defied the Nazis and survived Auschwitz

Caroline Moorehead's book, A Train in Winter, takes a different approach to the Nazi occupation of France during the Second World War.

In it she tells the story of a group of 230 French women deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau together in January 1943.

Only 49 of the women survived the infamous brutality of the concentration camp, but A Train in Winter is not a story about victims. Instead the book celebrates the spirit of resistance and friendship that persisted, despite the hardship, among these heroines of World War II.


BBC News - The French women who defied the Nazis and survived Auschwitz